Director: Rick Bota
Writer: Clive Barker, Carl V. Dupré, Tim Day
Tagline: Evil. Deadly. Immortal.
Actors: Dean Winters, Ashley Laurence, Doug Bradley, Rachel Hayward, Sarah-Jane Redmond, Jody Thompson, Kaaren de Zilva, William S. Taylor, Michael Rogers, Trevor White
Runtime: 1h 29m
Category: Psychological, Torture
Synopsis: After a nasty car accident, Trevor is left with horrible headaches, and his wife, who just happens to be none other than the infamous Kirsty Cotton, who he thought died, has gone missing. Now back to his daily humdrum, Trevor begins to see things, horrible things, as his headaches get worse. His memory has been affected by the accident and cannot remember anything before it. This makes life very difficult for him considering there seems to be a lot of seedy goings-on around him. Continuing to battle his head pains, he begins to remember things; like the present he gave his wife for their five year anniversary…which just happened to be The Lament Configuration puzzle box! Now that his memory is starting to return, slowly, he is beginning to remember that his life was full of deceit and lies. Not to far from that, his present is filled with dead bodies and hellish hallucinations. Not until collection time does he find out just what his jumbled up life has been about for the last few days: Pinhead has come to collect his soul! When he gave Kirsty the puzzle box she opened it and made a deal with Pinhead. In exchange for her soul, she would deliver to him five other souls in her stead. Those five just happened to be the women Trevor cheated on her with, his accomplice in a plan to kill Kirsty for her inheritance, and Trevor himself!
Review: I was not expecting too much from this movie…and rightfully so. I was not expecting to watch a Hellraiser movie that was almost an exact copy of another one. This movie was along the same lines as the one before it; Hellraiser: Inferno (2000). Seriously…disappointing.
The story, although not bad, was boring. Right up until the end when they start explaining everything I was bored out of my mind. The movie crept along like a half-mutilated snail covered in salt, not table salt (sissy pansy bullshit)...rock salt! There was no real climax to speak of and the effects were minimal at best. This story didn’t get good until we find out that Kirsty made a deal with the Cenobites. That Kirsty…such a philanthropist. You gotta love Kirsty Cotton, apart from being an ultra-mega babe, for her ability to escape Hell on multiple occasions. What a thrifty little vixen…what a fox!
The acting was convincing enough but not Hellraiser caliber. There were damn near no torture scenes and no real action at all. The only thing they did was infer that Trevor was being messed with by the Cenobites. I was not surprised with Dean Winters’ melancholy performance but I was surprised to notice that Doug Bradley…put on some weight. That Pinhead costume looked a little snug there Doug (rhyme intended). Apart from the gorgeous Ashley Laurence, the acting was just ok; nothing to sing about.
The gore, what little there was, was also boring. I was very disappointed with the lack of gore and/or chunkies, or even torture. This is a Hellraiser movie! And when people rent a Hellraiser movie…they have an expectation. And it’s not…a Hellraiser…without…GORE! (in my best Lewis Black voice). It was just wholly disappointing.
Rating: 10. I have to give it props for an original ending. The end is the only thing that made this movie. If you cut out most of the other scenes in the movie and just had the end…I’d watch it again. I think the big-heads of this film just wanted as much sex and boobs as they could fit into a Hellraiser. The others had flashes of boobs but nothing like this. I would not recommend this movie…I’ve already told you the best part. (10of25).
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